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AP In this Friday, Sept. 16, 2017, file photo, an individual uses a smartphone in Chicago.

By Lindsey Tanner, Associated Press

Tuesday, Nov. 14, 2017|11:54 a.m.

CHICAGO– An increase in suicide rates among U.S. teenagers happened at the exact same time social networks usage surged and a new analysis suggests there may be a link.

Suicide rates for teenagers increased in between 2010 and 2015 after they had actually decreased for nearly twenty years, inning accordance with data from the federal Centers for Illness Control and Prevention. Why the rates went up isn’t really understood.

The research study does not address the concern, but it suggests that a person factor could be rising social networks use. Recent teenager suicides have been blamed on cyberbullying, and social media posts illustrating “best” lives might be taking a toll on teenagers’ psychological health, scientists say.

“After hours of scrolling through Instagram feeds, I just feel even worse about myself since I feel neglected,” stated Caitlin Hearty, a 17-year-old Littleton, Colorado, high school elder who assisted arrange an offline project last month after a number of regional teen suicides.

“Nobody publishes the bad things they’re going through,” said Chloe Schilling, likewise 17, who helped with the project, in which hundreds of teenagers concurred not to utilize the internet or social networks for one month.

The study’s authors looked at CDC suicide reports from 2009-15 and outcomes of 2 studies provided to U.S. high school students to determine attitudes, habits and interests. About half a million teenagers ages 13 to 18 were involved. They were inquired about use of electronic gadgets, social media, print media, tv and time spent with good friends. Concerns about mood included frequency of sensation hopeless and thinking about or attempting suicide.

The scientists didn’t take a look at situations surrounding individual suicides. Dr. Christine Moutier, primary medical officer at the American Structure for Suicide Prevention, said the research study supplies weak proof for a popular theory which numerous factors affect teen suicide.

The study was published Tuesday in the journal Medical Psychological Science.

Data highlighted in the research study consist of:

— Teens’ usage of electronic gadgets consisting of smartphones for at least 5 hours daily more than doubled, from 8 percent in 2009 to 19 percent in 2015. These teenagers were 70 percent more likely to have self-destructive ideas or actions than those who reported one hour of day-to-day usage.

— In 2015, 36 percent of all teens reported sensation frantically sad or helpless, or thinking of, preparing or trying suicide, up from 32 percent in 2009. For girls, the rates were greater– 45 percent in 2015 versus 40 percent in 2009.

— In 2009, 58% of 12th grade women used social media every day or nearly every day; by 2015, 87% used social media every day or almost every day. They were 14% more likely to be depressed than those who utilized social media less regularly.

“We need to stop thinking about smartphones as harmless,” said study author Jean Twenge, a psychology teacher at San Diego State University who studies generational patterns. “There’s a tendency to state, ‘Oh, teenagers are just interacting with their friends.’ Keeping an eye on kids’ use of smart devices and social media is very important, therefore is setting affordable limits, she stated.

Dr. Victor Strasburger, a teen medication expert at the University of New Mexico, said the research study just indicates a connection between teenager suicides, anxiety and social networks. It reveals the need for more research study on new technology, Strasburger stated.

He kept in mind that doubters who believe social networks is being unfairly slammed compare it with so-called vices of past generations: “When dime-store books came out, when comics came out, when tv came out, when rock-and-roll initially began, people were stating ‘This is completion of the world.'”

With its immediacy, anonymity, and potential for bullying, social networks has a special potential for triggering real damage, he stated.

“Moms and dads do not truly get that,” Strasburger stated.

AP reporter P. Solomon Banda added to this story from Littleton, Colorado.

(Source: Alyssa Stringfellow/ Facebook). Tucson News Now -. Alyssa Stringfellow plainly has an excellent funny bone. She published a quite awkward moment on Facebook for her good friends to obtain an excellent laugh.

All of it began when she attempted to get on her grandmother’s automobile insurance coverage.

The instructions were simple: email the insurance coverage agent her motorist’s license number, date of birth, and an image straight on and a picture taken from each side. Easy enough.

However the agent’s reply revealed her mistake.

” Hello there Alyssa,

I am going to require images like you simply took, other than it has to be of your vehicle.:-RRB-“

Oops!

Alyssa’s grandmother sent her a text stating:” Alyssa Rachael, did you send him images of YOURSELF!? It was supposed to be of your vehicle!”

The law office initially used up occupancy in the residential or commercial property in 2007 when it backfilled Hyatt Hotels Corp.’s top seven floorings of the 45-story, 1.069 million-square-foot tower established by The Beitler Co. in 1983. The new extension will keep the law office in its area through 2032.

Built in 1985, the four-story office complex amounts to 250,000 square feet simply north of I-696 near the Tel-Twelve Shopping mall in the Southfield N. of 10 Mile submarket. Adient US will be occupy the whole 4th flooring.

David Miller and John Gordy of Signature Associates represented the proprietor, Taconic Capital Advisors, in settlements. By Miles Green

Established at Goldman Sachs in 2004 and separated as an independent company in 2013, New York City-based Worldwide Atlantic Financial Group will inhabit 46,290 square feet across the top two floorings at 20 Visitor St., a 223,877-square-foot, 10-story office building finished in 2000.

The 34-story Citigroup Center – Miami Center building overalls 802,974 square feet in downtown Miami. The property was completed in 1983 by developer Theodore Gould. Harvard Maintenance will occupy area on the 24th flooring later on this year. Other tenants in the building include Citibank and Kobre Law Firm.

Currently locateded at 201 S. College St., Hamilton Stephens Steele + Martin will move this summer season to 16,511 square feet on the 14th floor of the 19-story, 425,000-square-foot 525 N. Tryon tower located in Charlotte’s main business district.

Charles Jonas of Foundry Commercial represented the property owner in this deal. By Maurice Aufderheide

The six-story medical office building amounts to 130,000 square feet within the Riverside Innovation Center in Boston’s Mid-Cambridge/Harvard Square submarket. The Abbey Group is the existing owner and home manager of the property.

Measurement’s brand-new lease will start on February 1, 2018. By Tammy Mathieu

Palmieri Enterprises Secures First Renter at New Beachwood Office Project.

Editor’s note: Kelly Wallace is CNN’s digital reporter and editor-at-large covering family, career and life. Read her other columns, and follow her reports at CNN Parents and on Twitter.Watch “CNN Unique Report: #Being 13: Inside the Secret World of Teens,” an Anderson Cooper documentary, Monday at 9 p.m. ET on CNN.

(CNN)– For the sake of this story, I want to invent a brand-new acronym: IAVS, which means, “I am really sorry.”

“Would not it interest do a piece on the acronyms that teenagers are making use of across the Web, especially on social networks and apps, to aid parents understand what, in fact, their children are talking about?” I thought.

I spoke with existing lists of Internet acronyms and talked with Web security experts. It appeared fine– until the story published and I got a wildly critical response on social media, frequently with language that I cannot include here.

My Twitter feed exploded with people stating I didn’t understand exactly what I was talking about which teenagers weren’t utilizing the majority of the acronyms on my list.

Right here’s why I’m sorry: For that story, I never talked to the real professionals– teens, themselves.

I’m thankful to have a chance for a re-do, and this time I understand we’ll get it right since our list comes straight from the social networks posts of 13-year-olds around the nation.

As part of a two-year examination, #Being 13: Inside the Secret World of Teens, Anderson Cooper and his “AC360 °” group connected with 200 eighth-graders at eight various schools around the United States. They, together with their moms and dads and schools, gave CNN and 2 child-development professionals permission to evaluate exactly what they were publishing on Instagram, Facebook and twitter over a six-month duration.

Completion outcome: 150,000 posts written by 13-year-olds. They speak volumes about how teens communicate and exactly what impact social networks has on their lives. (The CNN Unique Report “#Being 13: Inside the Secret World of Teens” airs at 9 p.m. ET Monday. Enjoy to learn the outcomes of the very first massive research study of its kind on teenagers and social media.)

So what better method to know exactly what acronyms and other shorthand teens, or in this case, 13-year-olds, use on social media than to scan their posts? Right here are a few of the more popular acronyms and sayings, from the innocent to the racy.

1. OOTD – Clothing of the day

2. KOTD – Kicks of the day– Generally describes sneakers

3. HMU – Strike me up– Typically asking for somebody’s Snapchat username, a phone number to text or for a direct message

4. Smash – I would have sex with you– A woman might publish an intriguing picture and a kid may compose “smash.”

5. Cook session – When one or several teenagers gang up on another kid on social networks

6. TBH – To be sincere– A teen might post a photo of himself or herself and ask for a TBH, generally trying to find positive responses.

7. TBR – To be impolite– While TBH commonly leads to positive responses, TBR is usually followed by a negative response.

8. OOMF – Among my followers– A deceptive method to discuss among their fans without stating their name, such as “OOMF was so hot today.”

Smart City Networks, a Las Vegas business that supplies Wi-Fi at convention centers across the country, will pay a $750,000 fine after the Federal Communications Commission discovered that it blocked individual hotspots at venues it serviced.

After a grievance last year, an FCC investigation found that the business had been obstructing the personal mobile hotspots of convention participants who pulled out of Smart City’s $80 pay-per-day Wi-Fi plan. The settlement also requires the company to stop its Wi-Fi blocking. Smart City performed Wi-Fi obstructing at a variety of convention centers, the FCC found, consisting of places in Cincinnati; Columbus, Ohio; Indianapolis; Orlando, Fla.; and Phoenix.

“All companies who seek to utilize innovations that obstruct FCC-approved Wi-Fi connections are on notification that such practices are patently unlawful,” Travis LeBlanc, the chief of the FCC’s enforcement bureau, said in a statement Tuesday.

Mark Haley, the president of Smart City, said in a statement that the business acted in “great faith” and that it did not believe the innovation broke FCC guidelines. Haley said Smart City’s activities resulted in the blockage of less than 1 percent of gadgets and that the company stopped making use of the innovation when called by the FCC in October 2014.

“Our objective has actually always been to supply world-class services to our customers, and our company takes regulatory compliance extremely seriously. We are not gatekeepers to the Internet,” he stated. “As recommended by the Department of Commerce and Department of Defense, we have actually sometimes used technologies offered by significant devices makers to avoid wireless gadgets from considerably interfering with and disrupting the operations of surrounding exhibitors on our convention floors.”

Smart City did not contest the fine, with Haley saying a defense would be costly and a diversion. “We’ve chosen to work cooperatively with the FCC, and we are delighted to have actually fixed this matter,” he stated.

Palo Alto Networks signed a lease for 630,000 square feet of new workplace building and 121,953 square feet of existing workplace at 3325 Scott Blvd. in Santa Clara, CA.

The brand-new construction will certainly be on land bordered by Tannery Method, Lakeside Dr., Scott Blvd. and Garrett Dr. The existing workplace building leased at 3325 Scott Blvd. is a Class An office structure constructed in 2013.

This is the 2nd significant lease deal for the office campus in recent months following the signing of Aruba Networks and handle existing renters Pivot Interiors and Akami Technologies Inc.

RealPage Inc., a company of on-demand software application and software-enabled services to the rental real estate industry, leased a new home offices in Richardson, TX a suburb of Dallas. The lease is with an affiliate of Pillar Commercial for 2 buildings at 2201-2221 Lakeside Blvd.

. RealPage will take occupancy start in January 2016 with the lease beginning in September 2016 and set up to run for up to 12 years. It has 2, five-year options to restore. By Mark Heschmeyer

Comcast Inks 300,000-SF Lease in Panorama Corporate Center

Comcast, a leading cable television service provider, signed a brand-new lease for 300,000 square feet at 9401 and 9601 East Panorama Circle in Englewood, CO.

. The 2 four-story structures total near to 381,664 square feet in the Panorama Corporate Center, a seven-building, 835,000-square-foot company campus.

MicroVention Inc., a worldwide neurovascular company and a subsidiary of Terumo Corp., will certainly transfer its world head office to the Top Workplace School in Aliso Viejo, CA.

Building is set to begin this summertime on the four-story office with occupancy set up for the first half of 2017.

MicroVention will invest $100 million in the new center, which will certainly include an innovation/research and property development center.

Parker Characteristic will certainly develop the job on behalf of MicroVention, which will certainly occupy and own the center upon completion. The brand-new structure, developed by Ware Malcomb Architects, will house in extra of 800 employees. The 5.13 acre site also includes an 822-stall parking structure.

very first and 2nd floors. The company’s move from 3 High Ridge Park in Stamford is anticipated to take place this summer season. Clarion Partners, the property manager, was represented by JoAnn Brennan-McGrath of

the 222 N. LaSalle St. tower in Chicago’s Central Loop. Constructed in 1927, the 938,300-square-foot riverfront high-rise functions new additions that include a 7,200-square-foot conference center and auditorium, an 8,000-square-foot occupant lounge, and 2 news restaurants on the major lobby. Additional functions include a valet parking lot and fitness center. 222 N. LaSalle is an Environment-friendly Globe building that earned LEED Silver certification in 2011 and the BOMA 360 designation in Q1 2015.

internal representation on behalf of ownership.By Colton Odonoghue AlixPartners in 65,000-SF Workplace Lease Moving AlixPartners, a leading forensics financial business, signed an offer for a 65,000-square-foot workplace relocation to 909 Third Ave. in Manhattan. AlixPartners signed a 12-year sublease for the entire 29th and 30th floors. It is subleasing the area from Actavis. AlixPartners is moving from 40 W. 57th St. While the relocation was for the exact same

amount of area, the sublease enables AlixPartners to house substantially more staff members due to more setup

North Reading, Massachusetts. Paychex, a leading carrier of payroll &, personnel, and benefits contracting out solutions for small -to medium-sized companies, renewed its lease for office space on the structure’s first floor. The area works as a branch office for the company.

Transwestern|RBJ partners Brian McKenzie, James Lipscomb and John Wilson represented Northstone LLC, developing ownership, in the deal. Paychex was represented by Todd Smith, handling partner of The Honor Group LLC.By Mark Heschmeyer American Century Relocating

NYC Workplaces American Century Financial investment Management is moving its New york city workplaces to 41,210 square feet at 330 Madison Ave. It will certainly be taking the whole 7th floor in a 15-year lease. American Century Investment Management will certainly relocate from 666 Third Ave. in the first quarter

of 2016. CBRE’s Joseph Fabrizi, executive vicepresident; Michael Wellen, senior vice president; Sam Seiler, first vice president, and Zach Weil, senior associate represented American Century. Vornado Real estate Trust has 330 Madison Opportunity and was represented in home by Glen Weiss and Andrew Ackerman, together with JLL’s Frank Doyle and David Kleiner.By Mark Heschmeyer Indesign Restores 30,000-SF HQ Lease Indesign LLC, an engineering design company, has restored its head office lease for an added twelve years. The firm occupies the 29,850-square-foot office structure at 8225 E. 56th St. in Indianapolis, IN. The single-story building east of I-465 in Northeast Indianapolis submarket has actually been home to Indesign given that the structure delivered in 2001. James Mount of Hokanson Companies Inc. represented the property manager, Greenwalt Corporation.By Andrew Wiley BT Global Moving American Operations to Cypress Waters BT Global Services, a subsidiary of U.K. telecom operator BT Group, has actually chosen Cypress Seas in Coppell, TX as the website of its brand-new American headquarters. BT Global Solutions and Billingsley Co. negotiated a lease for 27,891 square feet in the suburban Dallas workplace park, a collection of recently finished and recommended low-rise workplace buildings along Cypress Seas Blvd. in Dallas’ DFW Freeport/Coppell submarket.BT will certainly relocate

250 staff members to its brand-new area at 8951 Cypress Seas Blvd., a three-story, 188,440-square-foot building that offers an open principle and collaborative environment. The area likewise offers easy access to retail along IH 635, multi-housing

space, and DFW International Airport. BT is the latest in a line of noteworthy brand names to make the decision to move headquarters to Cypress Waters, joining Nationstar Home mortgage, 7-Eleven and Cheddars. Noel Hutcheson and Fernando Araiza of Colliers International represented BT, while Kathy Permenter, Moody Younger and Sean Dalton of Younger Partners represented Billingsley.By Ben Harris Blue Canopy Leases Office in Reston Blue Canopy signed a 25,171-square-foot sublease at 11091

Sunset Hills Rd. in Reston, VA. The eight-story, 196,373-square-foot office structure was built in 2007 within the Sundown Corporate Plaza. Known as Reston Eastpointe, the apartment likewise houses workplaces for QinetiQ N.A., Vistronix and Vistera, according to CoStar info. Brent Mathis and David Goldstein of JLL represented the sublessor in settlements. Blue Canopy delivers info security, innovation integration, system engineering, program management, specialized training, and IT business performance management

The firm will move into the majority of the entire very first floor in September 2015. Likewise known as Corridors One, the 149,896-square-foot, five-story workplace building is part of The Corridors workplace park in Chicago’s Eastern East/West Passage. PerkinElmer is a technology firm that helps medical professionals through ingenious detection methods, imaging, informatics, and service abilities to more

rapidly and precisely turn information into choices. This is the business’s second location in Illinois. Fred Ishler and Joe Stevens with Transwestern represented the proprietor, SoundView Realty Partners.

Ben Erskine of JLL represented the seller.By Damian Smoter UBSFinancial Leases 19,000 SF in Westport UBS Financial Services Inc. has actually signed a ten-year, 19,217-square-foot lease at 8 Wright St. in Westport, CT. The full-floor lease will certainly begin in early 2016.

Marcus Capital Partners Fund II LP got the possession in October 2014, and has started a$5 million restoration that consists of new floor-to-ceiling windows and upgrades to the common areas, landscaping, parking, and mechanical systems. The three-story, 55,618-square-foot workplace structure was originally constructed in 1979 on 3.3 acres in the Westport submarket of Fairfield County. Adam Klimek with Cushman & Wakefield represented the property manager, Marcus Partners.

Stephen Baker, likewise with Cushman & Wakefield, represented the occupant in lease negotiations.By Justin Sumner Happiness Leases 16,000 SF at Brookfield Place Bliss World Holdings Inc., a day spa providing a variety of skin care and other appeal treatments, signed a 10-year lease for 16,854 square feet in the workplace structure at 200 Vesey St. in New York City. The 51-story structure was built in 1986 and totals about 2.5 million square feet. The structure is part of the 8.5-million-square-foot Brookfield Place complex worldwide Trade Center submarket of downtown Manhattan. Happiness is transferring from 75 Varick St. to the 25th floor at 200 Vesey. Other significant renters there consist of American Express, Royal Bank of Canada, and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.”Happiness’ upcoming lease expiration supplied a perfect opportunity for the company to review their realty needs and think about alternative choices, “said Joe Genovesi of Savills Studley. “They continue to be dedicated to Downtown Manhattan and were delighted to discover a much better overall value and facilities within Brookfield Location.”John Wheeler, Clayton Kline, Michael Berman

, and Paul Glickman of JLL represented the landlord, Brookfield Workplace Characteristics. Joe Genovesi and John Harte of Savills Studley represented Bliss.By Chris Ulrich Tech Square Labs Leases 15,059 SF in Midtown Tech Square Labs, a business contractor and innovation incubator company, rented up 859 Spring St. NW in Atlanta. Workplace Depot previously inhabited the 15,092-square-foot office structure, which the seller renovated in 2005. Tech Square Labs’ current lease is a growth of the additional 10,000 square feet of leasable space opening this summertime at Square on Fifth, a 25-story student living neighborhood that is expected to complete building in August 2015. Tech Square Labs will certainly quickly complete its$7 million renovation of the structure and start leasing space this month with their target group being start-up innovation business and business owners. Kim King Associates, an Atlanta-based advancement firm, purchased the building in November 2014 for just north of $3.6 million. Abby Perez of Kim King Associates was the leasing agent for the building.By Wesley Kenney

Transocean Keeps HQ at Four Greenway Plaza Transocean, a prominent international supplier of offshore written agreement drilling services for energy business, will certainly maintain its U.S. head office at 4 Greenway Plaza in Houston after accepting terms on a renewal with building owner, Cousins Properties. 4 Greenway Plaza is an 11-story, 255,413-square-foot workplace structure built in 1976 within the 4.5 million-square-foot Greenway Plaza workplace park. The structure has actually housed Transocean’s headquarters considering that 2001. Set to expire January 2017, Transocean’s new lease keeps them in the building till January 2023. The business also inhabits 13,552 square feet at 3800 Buffalo Speedway at Greenway Plaza, a lease that is still arranged to expire January 2017.

Jay Bonano of Savills Studley represented the renter in the transaction, while Bob Boykin, Warren Savery, Bubba Harkins and Will Hightower represented Cousins Properties.By Shavon Shockley Gilbane Building Leases 12,000 in Baltimore Gilbane Building Co., a building company, signed a lease for 12,000 square feet in the workplace building at 1215 Fort Ave. in Baltimore, MD. The four-story structure totals 140,000 square feet in The Workplaces at McHenry Row, a mixed-use development encompassing office, retail and domestic area.

Joseph Nolan and David Fritz of NAI KLNB represented the property manager. Peter Kimmel of CBRE represented the tenant.By Veryne Lawrence Inotek Indications with Boston Properties for 11,125 SF Inotek Pharmaceuticals Corp. signed a lease agreement with an affiliate of Boston Properties for 901 Hartwell Ave. in Lexington, Massachusetts. The business plans to transfer its head office to the premises. The company will occupy 11,125 square feet of office for 90 calendar months with rights to extend for one 5-year period.By Mark Heschmeyer